Week 4

Well... how did I do with the sugar thing?  I did okay... until that trip to Dairy Queen on Sunday! lol  Oh well, if the overall result is that I limit myself to one treat per week, I can be happy with that!  I'm on my third week of no smoking and truthfully, just the fact that I've stuck with that makes me happier than anything!  Am I going to keep this change?  Yes, as a diabetic, anything else would be kind of silly.  I will say that I do not expect perfection from myself on any of the changes(except smoking! lol) So, a treat here or there may happen.

Which brings me to this week.  I am going to take it a bit easy on myself this week.  I feel like the no smoking thing is still a huge, big deal right now and I don't want to take another big thing away until I feel steady on my feet with that.  So, this week, my change will involve high fructose corn syrup.  I've read the studies and I am convinced that I, as well as my family, would be better off without it.  I have no intention of tossing things that are already in my pantry but I'm going to spend this week checking labels and avoiding HFCS. Onward and upward!

Week 3

I did it!  I cannot believe that I did it but I did!!  As of today, I am nine days without an actual cigarette.  I still want them but the ecig does take the edge off.  Am I going to keep this change?  YES!  My hope is to cut back on the amount of nicotene in the ecigs until I get to zero but I'm not in a huge hurry.  For how, I'm very much enjoying the freedom I feel right now.  WOOT!

Okay, next week.  My plan is to cut out sweets.  No brainer with the diabetes but truth is, I have developed a bad dessert habit over the last six months or so.  So, the only sweet things I'll be eating this week are fruits.  Onward and upward. :)

Week 2

Week 2 is... well, let's go back to week one first.  My healthy habit for week one was to eat fruit and/or veggies with every meal.  I mostly succeeded and what amazed me was how much difference this one thing made in how I feel.  Um... things that had been um, well infrequent became quite um... regular!  My blood sugars came down.  That one surprised me since I made no other dietary changes.  It was a fairly easy change.  I do think I'll keep it.

Okay... week 2.  The week of the e cig.  It's been around one day since I started using them.  They're not cigarettes, but this is the longest I've gone without a cigarette, so there's something to it!  This week both excites me and scares me.  If I succeed, this could truly be one of the biggest changes for the good of me that I make.  Wish me luck!

Week 1

 I'll start at the beginning.  I woke up on my 47th Birthday.  For many reasons, I considered myself ahead of the game in that moment and came up with a marvelous idea. (to me anyway)  I have decided that year 47 is going to be pivotal for me.  I've played the diet game my whole life and I've won... then lost... then won... if you've played the game, you know what I mean.  It's always been some huge race for me, big pressure, counting this, measuring that, doing this much and that much... well, again, if you've played the game, you know.  For the first time in my life, I see a ribbon stretching before me.  All of the years I have in front of me and for me, the big question is, how do I want to feel?  Do I want to feel good or bad?  That's the bottom line.  I've decided that I want... hell, I deserve to feel good.  So that's what this year is about.

I decided to start a blog because, although I've never been a diary keeper, I do want a diary of this year.  I want to keep track of all the changes and the feelings, challenges and victories that occur with them.  

My scheme is simple.  Once a week, for one week, I will make a change in my life that I feel will result in me feeling better in some way.  Each week, I'll announce the change for that week.  I'll discuss the prior week's change, how successful it was, if it made me feel good, how difficult it was and if I want to make it a permanent change.  Easy peasy, right?  We will see. lol  Okay, now on to week one!

Week one, the change I'm making is to add fruits and/or veggies to every single meal. This report will be brief because it's the first one.  My hope is that by week 52, my report will be very long and very full of feeling good!